Today, our last day with Taryn before the Inca Trail, we all went to what is known as the second temple of the sun, the second most important Inca ruin in Cusco, Saqsaywaman (often referred to as sexy woman by the tourists). We had a rather over-enthusiastic guide, who could've had a great career on stage in the west end, over dramatising everything and leaving almost uncomfortable dramatic pauses after poignant and accusatory rhetorical questions. Taryn got the brunt of it - he directed most of his melodrama towards her, staring her out and invading her personal space. That said, he was very knowledgeable, but harboured a strong dislike for the Spanish and their destruction of the Incas and imposition of the Catholic religion (if I I had a penny for every time he said that...!)
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